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Offline LeeB

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8175 on: March 07, 2024, 03:09:47 PM »
A couple of interesting videos from today:





I could cry tears of joy watching that.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8176 on: March 07, 2024, 07:51:23 PM »
Unai <3

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8177 on: March 10, 2024, 03:37:58 PM »
This may just be a second language quirk, but this stands out for me from Unai’s post match interview, “ We compete very well in the first half, there weren't very many chances from them.” It just screams negativity to me, which is kind of what I saw in the starting line up. We should have been on the front foot in this game, but we played like a team who believed we were inferior.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8178 on: March 10, 2024, 03:40:48 PM »
He got it wrong. Whatever he attempted to do today was wrong. When you look at how we started many of the games when we were on that amazing home run, it wasn’t like this. This is us being scared of the opportunity vs grasping it. I hope this changes his outlook for the remaining home games because we need to win them. At this level even the worst sides can take advantage. Look at how Burnley almost got a result. We need to be better. Emery rightly has received many plaudits for what he’s done. He’s not beyond criticism.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8179 on: March 10, 2024, 03:44:31 PM »
This may just be a second language quirk, but this stands out for me from Unai’s post match interview, “ We compete very well in the first half, there weren't very many chances from them.” It just screams negativity to me, which is kind of what I saw in the starting line up. We should have been on the front foot in this game, but we played like a team who believed we were inferior.

Yeah, he's always even-handed in his comments but when we play shite he rarely calls it out. Maybe it's to protect the players. Surely someone as smart as he is, can see how we were struggling to press Spurs like they did to us in the first half. Just say that we looked jaded after Thursday and Spurs were a lot fresher.
His subs/changes seem to be more reactive than proactive lately. Half time he should have changed things knowing that Spurs had more energy.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8180 on: March 10, 2024, 03:51:00 PM »
He doesn’t strike me as the sort of person to call out a player publicly. I imagine the review sessions with his coaches and the players will be open and candid. And he is the sort to look himself in the mirror too.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8181 on: March 10, 2024, 03:52:33 PM »
Maybe we'd like him to blame the players more in public? Hang them out to dry like a big man? Like his predecessor?

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8182 on: March 10, 2024, 03:53:42 PM »
I just wish he'd stop picking up the phone when Paul Lambert calls him with advice.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8183 on: March 10, 2024, 03:54:08 PM »
Sure, but the below is a bit...tabloid. The type of shit Lambert would say as plucky Villa kept Spurs scoreless.

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"We played very well in the first half, we controlled the game and didn't concede chances. We were very good in the transition but we weren't clinical.

Offline aj2k77

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8184 on: March 10, 2024, 03:54:26 PM »
I really, really, really wish he'd stop throwing in the 5 defenders thing every now and again. We look abysmal each time it happens.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8185 on: March 10, 2024, 03:55:11 PM »
Maybe we'd like him to blame the players more in public? Hang them out to dry like a big man? Like his predecessor?

That ****** would need to be Argus for the eyes he’d want looking at him.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8186 on: March 10, 2024, 03:55:26 PM »
I’m not talking about blaming players or that stuff, it’s counterproductive. I’m more concerned that the quoted comment suggested we went into the game with an inferiority complex. If we are going into games against the likes of Spurs thinking we’ll be lucky to compete that is a big problem and we need to shift that mentality.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8187 on: March 10, 2024, 03:55:55 PM »
Sure, but the below is a bit...tabloid. The type of shit Lambert would say as plucky Villa kept Spurs scoreless.

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"We played very well in the first half, we controlled the game and didn't concede chances. We were very good in the transition but we weren't clinical.

Watkins scores that chance on the break and he looks like a genius. I agree the set-up was wrong today, but it's not miles off the set-ups that got him three successive wins against Spurs.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8188 on: March 10, 2024, 03:59:05 PM »
Cash in a midfield attacking role is a disaster

Please do not do it again unai

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #8189 on: March 10, 2024, 04:01:49 PM »
Bubble has burst.

 


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